In 1999, the United Arab Emirates had a population of around 3 million people. The economy of the UAE was heavily reliant on oil and gas production, with oil accounting for around half of the country’s GDP. Foreign relations in 1999 were generally positive, with the UAE maintaining strong ties to its Gulf Cooperation Council neighbours and to other countries in the Middle East and North Africa region. Politically, the UAE was governed by a president who had been in power since 1971 and had created a federation of seven emirates. The country was fairly stable politically, although there were some issues such as human rights abuses that needed to be addressed in order to improve the lives of its citizens. See ethnicityology for United Arab Emirates in the year of 2018.
Yearbook 1999
United Arab Emirates. In June, a conflict developed between the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, both members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Visit Countryaah official website to get information about the capital city of United Arab Emirates. The United Arab Emirates criticized Saudi Arabia for approaching Iran without regard to the United Arab Emirates being involved in a territorial dispute with that country over control of three islands in the Persian Gulf. A fierce exchange of words between the countries followed. The issue of the islands was discussed when the GCC’s foreign ministers met in mid-June and when representatives of Iran and Saudi Arabia met a month later. However, no solution was reached.
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HUMAN AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
Southwestern Asian state. The demographic trend continues to be characterized by a high annual growth rate, due in part to the expansionary policy of the smaller emirates, in part to the massive immigration of Asian workers. The largest demographic concentrations are the capital Abu abī and Dubai.
Economic growth continues to be made dynamic by the oil market. However, while maintaining a strong dependence on oil incomes, albeit in a very differentiated way in the seven emirates that make up the federation, the economy has reached a fair range of production and hydrocarbons, which in the 1970s contributed 70 % to the formation of the GDP fell to 30 %. In 2004 the different fields of the country, largely coastal and submarines, mostly concentrated in the two emirates of Dubai and Abu Zabi, had been extracted over 123.6 million tonnes of crude oil and 45,800 million m 3 of natural gas.
The trade balance is largely in excess: in addition to hydrocarbons, which make up the majority of exports, the role of re-export platform of the Dubai port system (third re-export port in the world, after Hong Kong and Singapore) weighs heavily on the overall value of trade foreign countries. Economic growth has also received a moderate boost from the prosperous banking system, whose success is favored by the relatively low cost of operations. In order to counter the idea of a certain collusion between financial interests and the Islamic terrorist network, restrictive regulations have been adopted and controls have been strengthened, especially with regard to hawala , an informal money transfer system used mainly by immigrants.HISTORY
Since the mid-nineties, the UAE federation has undergone a major transformation: international airports, futuristic shopping centers, development of luxury tourism. In addition, in 2000, Dubai Internet City, a free zone for e-commerce businesses, was inaugurated. Economic development has not, however, been accompanied by substantial changes in political life, always dominated by the royal families of the various emirates: there are, in fact, no democratically elected bodies, political parties and workers’ organizations. Nonetheless, the need to attract capital and trade has led to a certain tolerance in the federation, where about one hundred and forty different nationalities live together, many from Southeast Asia.
In foreign policy, in the early years of the new century the UAE took an attitude that was anything but hostile to US policy; following the attacks of 11 September 2001, after being the only ones with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to have recognized the Ṭālibān regime in Afghānistān, they broke off diplomatic relations with the latter to protest against the failure to hand over U. ibn Lādin, alleged organizer of the attacks. In March 2003, they facilitated US military operations against Iraq by hosting its air forces.
At the beginning of November 2004, Sheikh Zāyid ibn Sulṭān al-Nihayyān, president of the federation, launched a change in the ranks of the government: for the first time a woman was appointed minister and assumed the department of Economy. A few days later, however, the sheikh, who had led the emirates since their foundation in 1971, died. He was succeeded by his son Khalifa ibn Zāyid al-Nihayyān. In January 2006, after the death of the Emir of Dubai, Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid al-Maktoum, vice president and prime minister, he was succeeded in all his posts by General Shaikh Mohammed.
Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhaʹbi, Abū Ẓabī, capital of the Sheikh District of the same name and of the United Arab Emirates; 975,700 residents (2013). Abu Dhabi, located on a small island in the Persian Gulf, has undergone rapid modernization and growth since the 1960s. The city has a modern port and an international airport, as well as a petrochemical, cement and light industry.
